Fume-arrester.



SELDEN I. OLAWSON, F SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

FUME -.ARBESTEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed May 20. 1907. Serial No. 374.743.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SELDEN I. CLAwsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at 'Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State ofUtah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFume-Arresters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fume arresters, and pertains especially toimprovements upon my patent issued August 8, 1905, No. 796,956.

The object of this invention is to provide means revoluble in a body ofwater for carrying fumes through the water and for discharging the fumeslaterally into the water below the top surface of thewater.

A further object of the invention is to provide, ina fume arres'ter, apair of pipespne .of which is revolved withln the other for carryingfumes into a wheel revolubly contained in a body of water, and means forthe exit of the fumes from such wheel into the water.

A still further object of the invention is to provide, in a fumearrester, a water-casing iaving a series ofbreak-water vanes, a wheel inthe water and carrying a fume-pipe, by which the fumes are conductedinto the wheel, means carried by the wheel for discharging the fumesfrom the periphery of the whee wheel. 7

Various other objects,- advantages and proved results are attainable byand through thespecial'construction and arrangement of the parts of thisapparatus.

In the accom anying' drawings forming part of this app ication: Figure 1is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalview. Fig. 3 is a cross section on the plane indicated by the dottedline rcm Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the fume-ring.Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of provided with a pulley 5 driven bysuitable power to revolve the shaft. A fume-pipe 6,

and suitable means for revolving the g whence they leads into a fumeipe7 through which the shaft extends, an said pipe 7 has an open end whichprojects into the water at a distance below the surface of the water sothat the pipe 7 containswater up to the water level, or for aportion'ofits length.

The shaft has afume-wheel8 secured'thereto and revolved in the water bytheshaft directly under the open end of the pipe 7, so as to leave apassage 9 between the said ipe end and the top of the wheel. Secure tothe wheel and extending into the pipe 7, between the latter and theshaft is a fume-pipe 10, which has its open end projected above thewater. The pipe 7 -is fixed or stationary and the pipe 10 is revolved inthe pipe 7 by the shaft and the wheel.

The Wheel 8 is preferably composed of disks 11, and a ring 12, havingserrations 13. The disks are assembled to clamp the ring'therebetween sothat a portion of the ring proj ects beyond the eriphery of the'disks.The ring-opening an its contact disks form an annular fumeassage 14,from the ipe 10', to the serrate faces of the ring. The bot tom of thewheel is provided with counterbalances 15, and the ring is clamped intoposition by bolts 15. f

The tank 1 is provided with a series of break-water vanes 16, projectingradially from the tank so as to leave an interval or space between themand the periphery of the ring 12.

It will be seen that the'fumes are drawn into. the passage 14, by therevolutionof'the wheel, and discharged from said assage through theserrations of the ring; 't at the vanes 16, break or further agitate thewater between the eriphery of the ring and the tank so that t e fumesmay thoroughly mix or commingle with the water and that the fumes passthrough and from the wheel through both sides of the ring into thewater, are dispersed throughout the body of water.

It is obvious that only two wheel-disks may be employed for clamping thewheel therebetween; that the rin may be made integral with one of thedis s; that the size and number of the vanes may be varied as desired,and that various other mechanical changes and. e uivalent constructionand arbe resorted to wit tion;

rangement of t e pgrts of the apparatus may 11 the scope. of this inven-Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In a fume-arrester, a fume-wheel havingan axial fumeipe leading into it, a ring carried by the w eel fordischarging the fumes through the periphery of the wheel and forming anannular passage in the wheel from said pipe.

2. In a fume-arrester, the combination, with a suitable tank containinga body of water, a series of break water vanes within the tank, and thefume-pipes one within the other, of a fume-wheel revoluble in the waterand having one of said pipes secured thereto for carrying the fumes fromthe other ipe into the Wheel, and a serrated ring by which the fumes arecarried out of the Wheel.

3. In a fume-arrester, the combination, with asuitable tank containing abody of water, a pairof fume-pipes one revoluble within the other andboth being partially within the water, and a driven shaft extendingthrough said i es, of a fume-wheel secured to the shaft be? having theother of said pipes attached and leading thereinto, and fume-passagesfrom the revoluble pipe through the periphery of the wheel.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

SELDEN I. CLAWSON. 'itnesses MATHONIHAN THonAs, WILFORD MoYLE.

ow one of said pipes and-

